European Events : 1000 Miles! race

[SportWagon]

These suggestions seem seriously over the top! It's not as if the opposition's anything special, I used an Alfa Romeo GTA with 187bhp, and it was easy provided you weren't up against the Cobra.

Just to make sure, I'm running it again. At the end of lap 2 of the 'Ring I was 25 secs ahead of the '63 Corvette. ... I was not running perfect laps, just 8'42"- 8'55"s.

As long as you avoid the Cobra, you don't need anything really special.

So this is one of those series where A Cobra can show up and make it totally different. Or even a 1963 Corvette. Both times I've run it, and a couple of times I entered temporarily (for field assessment), the fields have been very mediocre, led by a Mini Marcos which goes ahead early, but eventually falls back leaving an Alfa GTA leading the AI.

 

[FastEddie12]

^yup! I thought that the '63 'Vette would have similar performance to the Cobra, but it was surprisingly slow. It was running just under the 9min mark. Funny, I thought those things had loads of power...

 

[PARAGON GT]

^yup! I thought that the '63 'Vette would have similar performance to the Cobra, but it was surprisingly slow. It was running just under the 9min mark. Funny, I thought those things had loads of power...

Funny, I was turning laps at under 8:00 doring the practice runs with the 63 Vette. Granted, I was chewing up a set of tires every 2 laps. Later I jacked up the TCS to 8 or 9 if I remember right. That seemed to save on the tires a little bit. And it actually increased my lap times and decreased my tire wear because I wasn't spinning my tires after comming out of a turn. I still came in first, and was miles ahead of the second place car.

I didn't get any A-spec points though.

But I'll live

 

[Moloch_horridus]

And that also eliminates the potential A-spec scam of starting on tires less good than you use for most of the race.

Not quite - you can start on N1s and then change to N3s at your first stop. You will get whatever a-spec points were indicated when you started the race.

All you have to do is not fall off the pace too far before that first stop. It may almost be worth stopping after the first lap (I did this in the 4hr 'Ring race) to swap tyres - depends on the number of laps, your opponents, etc.

 

[colton19911]

How do you refill the nos tanks in pit lane?

 

[Moloch_horridus]

How do you refill the nos tanks in pit lane?

You can't - you only get one tank for the whole race.

 

[SportWagon]

^yup! I thought that the '63 'Vette would have similar performance to the Cobra, but it was surprisingly slow. It was running just under the 9min mark. Funny, I thought those things had loads of power...

That's still significantly faster than the AI Alfa Romeo GTA.

 

[christofire]

I've just finished race 2 (Opera Paris) in this series. I'm using a Ginetta G4, tuned to 93hp. It's overkill and a half - I was 6 laps up on the Alfa by the end of the race, with laps being 1'40 to 1'45, total time about 2hrs 30mins. On the Ring it took nearly four hours and was pretty boring by the end - so little action.

The car itself is quite good - if you gas it round corners it tends to oversteer. Either lift slightly or be very gentle with steering to make it behave. I'm using SS/SS tyres. I was tempted to slow the car down and de-tune it, but right now I just want to get this series done ASAP.

 

[JonnyGT]

I started this championship today, I'm using the AC cobra 427, quite fun to drive round the 'ring. I b-speced about half of the race and the end time was about 3.5 hours. I used hard tires and I squeezed 3 laps out of them before pitting in.

To be honest the championship is too long and too easy, I must have lapped that Fiat 500 about 5 or 6 times (wish I had got a screenshot of it flying 10ft in the air when I crashed into it ). Its gonna take me all week to finish

 

[Moloch_horridus]

I started this championship today, I'm using the AC cobra 427... To be honest the championship is too long and too easy

Too long - agreed
Too easy - try using a Karmann Ghia or an S600